Keeping Your Kids From the Cults
Larry Wynn
Colossians 2:8-10
Introduction
A. Opening illustration: ''on saturday, March 22nd, around the time that the Disciples of heaven's gate were just Beginning their quiet and meticulous Self-extinction, a small cottage in The french canadian village st. Casimar exploded into flames. Inside The burning house were five people, All disciples of the order of the Solar temple. Since 1994, 74 members of That group have gone to their death In canada, switzerland, and france. For two days and nights before the Blast, the grownups had pursued a Remarkable will to die. Over and Over they fiddled with three tanks of Propane that were hooked to an Electric burner and a timing device. As many as four times, they Swallowed sedatives, then arranged Themselves in a cross around a queen Size bed, only to rise in bleary Frustration when the detonator Fizzled. Finally, they blew Themselves up. For them that would Be the star sirius, in the Constellation canis major, nine light Years from quebec. According to the Doctrines of the solar temple, they Will reign there forever, weightless And serene.''
B. This is just another one of the many Cults operating in the world today.
C. Last week we took a look at the Deadly deception of the cult Movement.
D. Today, i want us to take a pro active Approach to keeping our kids out of Cults.
E. We are told as we near the year 2000 The number of cults in america will Be increasing in america.
The reason being the approach of a New millennium.
G. Young people are a major target of Cults. There are many reasons for This.
1. Teens are impressionable.
2. The dysfunction of the american Family.
3. The lack of impact of the Christian church today.
4. The interest in the occult, Eastern religions, new age, and Interest in the solar system Make cults attractive.
H. The scripture warns us not to be Entangled in these false and de ...
Larry Wynn
Colossians 2:8-10
Introduction
A. Opening illustration: ''on saturday, March 22nd, around the time that the Disciples of heaven's gate were just Beginning their quiet and meticulous Self-extinction, a small cottage in The french canadian village st. Casimar exploded into flames. Inside The burning house were five people, All disciples of the order of the Solar temple. Since 1994, 74 members of That group have gone to their death In canada, switzerland, and france. For two days and nights before the Blast, the grownups had pursued a Remarkable will to die. Over and Over they fiddled with three tanks of Propane that were hooked to an Electric burner and a timing device. As many as four times, they Swallowed sedatives, then arranged Themselves in a cross around a queen Size bed, only to rise in bleary Frustration when the detonator Fizzled. Finally, they blew Themselves up. For them that would Be the star sirius, in the Constellation canis major, nine light Years from quebec. According to the Doctrines of the solar temple, they Will reign there forever, weightless And serene.''
B. This is just another one of the many Cults operating in the world today.
C. Last week we took a look at the Deadly deception of the cult Movement.
D. Today, i want us to take a pro active Approach to keeping our kids out of Cults.
E. We are told as we near the year 2000 The number of cults in america will Be increasing in america.
The reason being the approach of a New millennium.
G. Young people are a major target of Cults. There are many reasons for This.
1. Teens are impressionable.
2. The dysfunction of the american Family.
3. The lack of impact of the Christian church today.
4. The interest in the occult, Eastern religions, new age, and Interest in the solar system Make cults attractive.
H. The scripture warns us not to be Entangled in these false and de ...
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